HP B6960-90078 manual Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery of a Windows Client, Requirements

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Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery of a Windows Client

Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery of a Windows Client

To perform the Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery, use a working Data Protector client (Data Protector disaster recovery host) to create the new disk while connected to this client. The administrator has to ensure before the disaster that enough data is collected to correctly format and partition the disk. However, Data Protector automatically stores the relevant information as part of the configuration backup.

The recovered partitions are:

•the boot partition

•the system partition

•the partitions containing Data Protector

Any remaining partitions can be recovered by using the standard Data Protector recovery procedure.

For details on supported operating systems, refer to the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Software Release Notes.

This method is specially useful with hot swap hard disk drives, because you can disconnect a hard disk drive from a system and connect a new one while the power is still on and the system is operating.

Requirements

•The partitions have to be the same size or larger than the partitions on the failed disk. This way the information stored on the failed disk can be restored to the new one. Also, the type of filesystem format has to match (FAT, NTFS).

•The system on which the disk is created and the system in which the disk is used have to use the same sector mapping/addressing (SCSI BIOS enabled/disabled; EIDE: both systems have to use the same addressing mode: LBA, ECHS, CHS).

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